Talk:Alistair MacLeod
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Recommend changing the first line.... perhaps to a noted Canadian writer or the like - Hemanshu 15:41, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)
An explanation of the title of MacLeod's novel:
General James Wolfe, the English commander at the battle of Québec, had previously helped put down the Jacobite rebellions in Scotland.
The following is from http://www.clanfraser.ca/78th1.htm, on the website of the Clan Fraser Society of Canada, written by Marie Fraser, Genealogy/Newsletter Editor, Clan Fraser Society of Canada and shown as updated on Nov. 30, 2004:
James Wolfe (1727-59), while serving with the 20th Regiment in Scotland, in a letter to Captain William Rickson, dated June 9, 1751, revealed his reasons for considering the formation of new Highland regiments, which are not wholly flattering to the Highlanders. "I should imagine,” wrote Wolfe, referring to Rickson’s duties in Nova Scotia, “that two or three independent Highland companies might be of use; they are hardy, intrepid, accustomed to a rough country, and no great mischief if they fall. How can you better employ a secret enemy than by making his end conducive to the common good? If this sentiment should take wind," he justly concludes, “what an execrable and bloody being should I be considered here in the midst of Popery and Jacobitism!" [James Wolfe: Man and Soldier by W.T. Waugh, M.A., Kingsford Professor of History, McGill University (Montreal, New York: Louis Carrier & Co., 1928) p. 101]
(emphasis added for clarity)
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